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"A Guide to 60 Independent Labels. Over the last 20 or so years we have witnessed an explosition in music related books, this one being a most welcome addition that fills a hole in that ever growing library. Born out of necessity and a love of the music and the records, ...
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"We are delighted to welcome back the mighty Supersilent with a brand new record, their first in four years. Recorded during three different sessions back in 2011, "Supersilent 12" is produced by Deathprod from hours of recordings at his own Audio Virus LAB, Athletic ...
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"Arve Henriksen stumbled across the title of his latest album while reading a book about furniture-making. 'The author mentioned the complexity of making a chair and all the people involved in the process,' the Norwegian trumpet player says. 'The high quality of the ...
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"It can't be easy gathering 28 of Northern Europe's finest jazz and improvising musicians in one place at the same time, which is why Sweden's Fire! Orchestra has been one of the continent's best kept secrets so far. After playing rare shows a handful of times a year, ...
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"It can't be easy gathering 28 of Northern Europe's finest jazz and improvising musicians in one place at the same time, which is why Sweden's Fire! Orchestra has been one of the continent's best kept secrets so far. After playing rare shows a handful of times a year, ...
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"The best improvisors are the ones that seem to invent and uninvent their instruments right in front of your eyes and ears. Swedish pianist Sten Sandell and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love are two musical champions with a long experience of doing exactly that. ...
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"The best improvisors are the ones that seem to invent and uninvent their instruments right in front of your eyes and ears. Swedish pianist Sten Sandell and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love are two musical champions with a long experience of doing exactly that. ...
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""Death Rattle" is the noise of two forces of nature in collision. Like a pair of clashing typhoons, Philadelphia based avant guitarist James Plotkin and Norwegian free jazz drummer Paal Nilssen-Love generate chaos, disturbance and a terrifying beauty in their first ...
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1st edition w/ cd "On a sultry July evening on an intimate stage at Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway, two elder statesmen of improvised music - one wearing a grey shirt, the other sporting a T-shirt with the legend 'Thunder Pussy' - stepped up to the platform. What ...
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""Death Rattle" is the noise of two forces of nature in collision. Like a pair of clashing typhoons, Philadelphia based avant guitarist James Plotkin and Norwegian free jazz drummer Paal Nilssen-Love generate chaos, disturbance and a terrifying beauty in their first ...
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"On a sultry July evening on an intimate stage at Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway, two elder statesmen of improvised music - one wearing a grey shirt, the other sporting a T-shirt with the legend 'Thunder Pussy' - stepped up to the platform. What followed resembled an ...
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"With Places Of Worship Arve Henriksen moves into the front rank of world class musicians. The Norwegian trumpet player has made his mark over many years, not only as the horn player with the consistently challenging and long lived group Supersilent, but also as the ...
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"The debut solo album from Spunk member Maja Ratkje will secure her a place among the finest experimental singers. From the weird and furious to the enchanting and beautiful, this is an album rich in atmosphere, colour and creative madness. Everything is based on her ...
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"After successful collaborations with prestigious guests like Jim O´Rourke and Oren Ambarchi and the widely acclaimed Fire! Orchestra release earlier this year our Swedish friends are back as a trio, lighting up a sonic blaze of rock based riffs and hypnotic ...
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"After successful collaborations with prestigious guests like Jim O´Rourke and Oren Ambarchi and the widely acclaimed Fire! Orchestra release earlier this year our Swedish friends are back as a trio, lighting up a sonic blaze of rock based riffs and hypnotic ...
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"In the history of jazz and improvisation the saxophone duet is remarkably rare. Sax players tend to lock horns with drummers, bassists, trumpeters, even cellists and violinists, but rarely with each other. But here to blow that convention out of the water come two of ...
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"In the history of jazz and improvisation the saxophone duet is remarkably rare. Sax players tend to lock horns with drummers, bassists, trumpeters, even cellists and violinists, but rarely with each other. But here to blow that convention out of the water come two of ...
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"On their fourth album, counting the limited vinyl only "Live At The BBC", Elephant9 join forces with Reine Fiske, the quite excellent Swedish guitarist from Dungen, The Amazing and Träd, Gräs och Stenar, for yet another heavy slice of mindblowing modern rock'n'jazz ...
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"For their third album Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin team up with Oren Ambarchi, a true explorer of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it´s no longer easily identifiable as itself" as The Wire once ...
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"For their third album Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin team up with Oren Ambarchi, a true explorer of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it´s no longer easily identifiable as itself" as The Wire once ...
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"Volcano The Bear have released a number of records since the start in 1995, often mixing studio, live and home recordings. Golden Rhythm/Ink Music is their first studio album since "Amidst The Noise And Twigs" back in 2007. Largely based on the sonic fault-line between ...
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"Volcano The Bear have released a number of records since the start in 1995, often mixing studio, live and home recordings. Golden Rhythm/Ink Music is their first studio album since "Amidst The Noise And Twigs" back in 2007. Largely based on the sonic fault-line between ...
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"Limited, numbered vinyl edition of only 300 copies with "insanely nerdy details" on each track by Jono himself. "The Choko King" is Jono's third album since 2009, but the recordings are from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which predates his first album by ...
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